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liberal arts
in
The Devil in the White City
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- Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, after the storm of June 13, 1892.†
p. 111.5 *liberal arts = studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills
- If successfully erected, George B. Post's Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building would be the largest building ever constructed and consume enough steel to build two Brooklyn Bridges.†
p. 114.1
- The tests yielded similar results—until Gottlieb's men came to the site intended for George Post's gigantic Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.†
p. 129.9
- Burnham ordered his key contractors—including Agnew & Co., erecting the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building—to stop work immediately.†
p. 140.8
- The October dedication was to take place inside the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, yet as of January only the foundation of the building had been laid.†
p. 145.6
- The Woman's Building was nearly finished, all its scaffolding gone; the giant Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building had begun rising above its foundation.†
p. 153.4
- At one point he was called upon to help make reporters understand how truly immense the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building would be.†
p. 160.6
- Much of the park was still barren land, and the biggest building, Manufactures and Liberal Arts, was barely under way.†
p. 163.6
- Burnham fought to boost the rate of construction, especially of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, which had to be completed by Dedication Day.†
p. 173.7
- Three weeks later another storm destroyed eight hundred feet of the south wall of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.†
p. 174.3
- One looming problem was how to color the exteriors of the main buildings, especially the staff-coated palisades of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.†
p. 174.4
- At the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building workers employed by contractor Francis Agnew began the dangerous process of raising the giant iron trusses that would support the building's roof and create the widest span of unobstructed interior space ever attempted.†
p. 177.2
- On the night of June 13, just after nine o'clock, another abrupt storm had struck the fairgrounds, and this one also seemed to single out the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.†
p. 177.9
- Most of the other buildings were well under way, including, incredibly, the giant Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, where hundreds of workers swarmed its scaffolds and roof.†
p. 180.1
- On Dedication Day even the press was polite enough to overlook the stark appearance of the grounds and the unfinished feel of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.†
p. 180.9
- A great parade brought Burnham and other dignitaries to the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, where a standing army of 140,000 Chicagoans filled the thirty-two-acre floor.†
p. 181.2
- Men working at the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building heard the shriek of failed steel and ran for cover.†
p. 196.9
- Only one of the eight towers of the Ferris Wheel was in place and workers had not yet completed repairs to the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.†
p. 218.3
- A bit too tremendous, he noted cattily, at least in the case of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.†
p. 221.2
- It suppressed the dust that rose from the unplanted portions of the grounds—of which, he was disappointed to see, there were far too many—and by now all the roofs were finished, even the roof of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.†
p. 226.8
- On Wednesday night a particularly heavy rain came pounding through Jackson Park, and soon a series of two-hundred-foot cataracts began tumbling from the glass ceiling of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building onto the exhibits below.†
p. 227.1
- The elevators in the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, touted as one of the wonders of the fair, still had not begun operation.†
p. 240.9
- Unopened crates and rubbish that just one week earlier had cluttered the interior of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, particularly at the pavilions erected by Russia, Norway, Denmark, and Canada, likewise had been removed, and now these spaces presented "an entirely different and vastly improved appearance."†
p. 252.1
- Every building, including the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, was outlined in white bulbs.†
p. 254.4
- At the far end of the boulevard, looming like an escarpment in the Rockies, stood the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.†
p. 266.1
- The Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building alone had ten, plus two large restaurants, one German, the other French.†
p. 267.1
- It cheered when the big searchlights atop the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building began sweeping the crowd, and when colorful plumes of water—"peacock feathers," the Tribune called them—began erupting from the MacMonnies Fountain.†
p. 291.1
- Six roof panes blew from the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.†
p. 300.4
- With the stink of charred wood still heavy in the air, Burnham closed the roof walks of the Transportation and Manufactures and Liberal Arts buildings and the balconies and upper galleries of the Administration Building, fearing that a fire in the buildings or among their exhibits could start a panic and cause a tragedy of even greater magnitude.†
p. 303.9
- They arrived at Chicago's Union Depot on Monday, July 17, at eight o'clock in the morning and went immediately by carriage to their hotel, the Varsity, located close enough to the fair that from its second-floor balcony the teachers could see the Ferris Wheel, the top of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, and Big Mary's gilded head.†
p. 305.4
- Dreiser followed the ladies through the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building where, he said, a man "could trail round from place to place for a year and not get tired."†
p. 305.9
- On July 5, 1894, arsonists set fire to the seven greatest palaces of the exposition—Post's immense Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, Hunt's dome, Sullivan's Golden Door, all of them.†
p. 335.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(liberal arts) studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)Various schools may define liberal arts more specifically, but not necessarily with consistency even within different campuses of a single system of colleges.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)